Cosmopolitan Borders [electronic resource] /
Rumford, C.author.
Geiger, Martin,1975-
Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Borders are 'cosmopolitan workshops' where 'cultural encounters of a cosmopolitan kind' take place and where entrepreneurial cosmopolitans advance new forms of sociality in the face of 'global closure'.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Citizen Vernacular: The Case of Borderwork; 3 'Seeing Like a Border': Towards Multiperspectivalism; 4 Fixity/Unfixity; 5 Connectivites: Monumentalizing Borders; 6 Concluding Comments; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism. Borders are 'cosmopolitan workshops' where 'cultural encounters of a cosmopolitan kind' take place and where entrepreneurial cosmopolitans advance new forms of sociality in the face of 'global closure'.
Welfare state.
Political theory.
Sociology.
Political science.
Emigration and immigration.
Political sociology.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Political Theory.
Sociology, general.
Political Science.
Migration.
Political Sociology.